Entries tagged “graphics”
“100 Essential Tips for Cutting Copy” X-ACTO advertisement
c. 1980s
(found this and had a laugh while flipping through the March/April 1987 issue of Step-by-Step Graphics. Sadly, many of the tools and processes for graphic design professionals discussed in the issue are a bit foreign to me)
Leanne Shapton illustrates a few favorite books authors are taking to dinner in the Sketchbook section of this week’s New York Times Sunday Book Review.
Book Cover Design Made Easy by Tom Gauld
(discovered via casual optimist)
President Obama’s budget proposal is surprisingly a downloadable pdf that is easy to read, complete with chart graphics.
just for fun, penguin-esque Harry Potter series redesign by illustrator M.S. Corley
(via buzzfeed)
A lengthy article from NYMag about Comedy Central’s new show Important Things with Demetri Martin, includes an image slideshow of Demetri’s random sketchbook. Demetri is also on the cover of the printed magazine this week.
I’m looking forward to a new comedy show that incorporates simple illustrations, graphs, animations and hand-lettering throughout. I have high hopes for a comedy host with an eye for design and illustration. Demetri “occasionally likes to visit the design section at MoMA to stand and admire a lamp, or a chair, or even a doorstop in which, by removing the extraneous parts, the designer has revealed the essential object…” (read more at nymag) Back in 2005, Gothamist posted an interview with the comedian.
Also, the show will host a weekly Important Things Picture Contest.
Vintage Cassette Tape Covers
(via grain edit via jubru)
Big Spaceship has launched their online gallery of Flash preloaders (with some help from Firstborn and AgnecyNet)
“…It’s a tribute to a vanishing art form amid a constantly changing digital landscape…”
Preloader graphic above is from the Family Guy website designed by Big Spaceship circa 2005.
(read a bit more about the project on CR Blog)
